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Dear PC font user:
We at Altsys are proud to announce the availability of
Fontographer 3.2, the first Macintosh PostScript font program that
can produce fonts for the ATM (Adobe Type Manager) Windows
environment on MS-DOS computers.
Accompanying this README.TXT file is the PostCrypt font. It is
fully compatible with ATM for Windows, allowing it to be seen on
screen at any size, and print to any printer that has a Windows
driver.
INSTALLING THE POSTCRYPT FONT:
1. Copy the POSTCRY_.PFB file to your \PSFONTS directory.
2. Copy the POSTCRY_.PFM file to your \PSFONTS\PFM directory. (You
can ignore the .AFM file since it is not useful with Windows. It
may be useful to people running GEM applications, however.)
3. Open the ATM Control Panel and "Add..." PostCrypt to your list
of ATM fonts. You will have to open the \PSFONTS\PFM directory to
allow ATM to see your PostCrypt font.
4. If you have a PostScript printer, the following will be
necessary. If your printer does not have PostScript, ignore this
step. Open your WIN.INI file with the Windows Notepad program.
(Do you have a backup of it? If not, make one now.) At the end of
the "softfonts" list, you will see something like:
softfonts5=c:\psfonts\pfm\POSTCRY_.PFM
You'll need to change this to:
softfonts5=c:\psfonts\pfm\POSTCRY_.PFM,c:\psfonts\POSTCRY_.PFB
Doing this allows the Windows PostScript driver to find your .PFB
file and download it to your PostScript printer. DO NOT use a
semicolon between the two entries or you will cause some rather
unpleasant problems.
You should now exit Windows and restart. PostCrypt will now show
up in your Windows programs' font menus and you'll be able to
choose it and use it like any other font. ATM will allow you to
see the font in all sizes and print it smoothly at all sizes.
INFORMATION ABOUT FONTOGRAPHER 3.2:
Fontographer 3.2 runs only on Macintosh computers. It runs on the
$999.00 Macintosh Classic which has a 1.44Mb FDHD Superdrive
capable of formatting and writing a PC 3-1/2" diskette.
Fontographer 3.2 retails for $495.00 and is available from all
reputable dealers of Macintosh software. To make fonts for Windows
with ATM from Fontographer 3.2 you can do the following:
1. Draw the font or autotrace it from scanned images pasted into
Fontographer 3.2's Edit window. If you have already made
Fontographer fonts, you can use the "Open font..." dialog from the
File menu to open the font and allow its conversion to PC format.
If you have PC PostScript fonts you wish to modify, you can
download them to any Adobe PostScript printer that can
simultaneously communicate with both Macintoshes and PC's, then
use Altsys' Metamorphosis (retail $149.00) to convert the fonts to
Fontographer format on the Macintosh.
2. Select all the characters in the font and use the Path menu's
"Correct path direction" item to make sure that the path
directions in the font are correct.
3. While all the characters are still selected, use the Edit
menu's "Char info..." item to make sure that all the characters in
the font are filled with "Normal" fill and a "Tint" of 100% (DO
NOT check the "Stroke" checkbox, since Adobe rules do not allow
stroked characters in Type 1 fonts).
4. Use the Edit menu's "Font attributes..." dialog to turn on the
"Automatic PostScript and bitmap hints," "Generate Type 1 fonts,"
and "Adobe standard character encoding" checkboxes. Do not turn on
the "Use Flex feature if possible" checkbox unless you are
absolutely certain that your font can benefit from Flex.
5. Use the File menu's "Generate fonts..." dialog and choose the
"PostScript-PC" item from the "Outline format:" popup menu. To
save time, you can choose the "None" item from the "Bitmap
format:" popup menu, since you will not need to generate any kind
of bitmap file. OK this dialog and the result will be the .AFM,
.PFB, and .PFM files described above. They can be installed using
the above instructions.
For further information about Fontographer 3.2, call or write:
Altsys Corporation
269 W. Renner Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080
Phone: (214) 680-2060
CompuServe: 76004,2071
FAX: (214) 680-0537
MCI Mail: ALTSYS
AppleLink: D0590
America Online: Altsys